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We cannot allow efforts to clean up government, says White House

It's very simple: from US brutalities in Honduras to sexual assaults on Peace Corps volunteers to FBI corruption to .... The list continues...

The White House is unwilling to allow inspectors general to do their jobs."Tensions are common between the watchdogs and the officials they investigate," the New York Times reports, "President Ronald Reagan, in fact, fired 15 inspectors general in 1981. But a number of scholars and investigators said the restrictions imposed by the Obama administration reflect a new level of acrimony."

“This is by far the most aggressive assault on the inspector general concept since the beginning,” said Paul Light, a New York University professor who has studied the system. “It’s the complete evisceration of the concept. You might as well fold them down. They’ve become defanged.”...NYT